Joe Banyard: It’s absolutely no surprise that we let him walk in free agency, especially knowing what we now know about the draft. There would’ve been no room for him on the roster. He finished his 2 years in Jacksonville with a grand total of 2 carries for 7 yards, which both came in the season finale against the Colts. I remember him having a solid preseason for the Jags in 2016, so I could easily see him sticking on the back end (though not being active) of Buffalo’s roster if he puts up another performance like he did in this past preseason. But there was no reason for the Jaguars to keep him.

Denard Robinson: While I’m not surprised that we let him walk, I am surprised that he hasn’t found a new team yet. There was a brief moment of hope for Robinson as the feature halfback in 2014, when he took over the starting job from the inept Toby Gerhart, and had a 4-game stretch between weeks 7-10 where he had 72 carries for 389 yards (5.4 YPC) and 4 touchdowns. Unfortunately, that was it for Denard, as he was never the same player after that fluke four-game stretch. He could never hold onto the ball, he couldn’t break tackles, and while he was fast in the second level, he never got into the second level because he couldn’t find the hole in the first level. The only notable thing I’ll remember him for is being the guy that was constantly running towards the kick returner with his hands in the air telling the returner not to return the kick. The fact that he’s not on any 90-man roster is surprising; the last I heard from him was that he had a tryout with the Jets back in June, but that obviously didn’t amount to anything. All things considered, drafting a guy like Robinson was always going to be a massive project. It could’ve gone a whole lot better, but in fairness, it could’ve gone much worse.

Bronson Hill: Apparently, he ran the ball 2 times for 11 yards this season. I don’t remember it. You know you’re pretty bad when, as an exclusive rights free agent, you don’t get re-signed. For perspective, Caldwell re-signed every ERFA last year for the 90-man roster. In two seasons in the NFL, Hill has been on six different teams, and unlike Banyard, I can’t really offer anything about his playing abilities since he only joined the team after the preseason. His playing days might already be done, seeing as nobody has picked him up yet.

Daryl Richardson: Remember that halfback that the Rams drafted in 2012 that looked like a legitimate steal during his rookie season and never did anything ever again? Turns out, the Jaguars had him for all of about five days. In 2012, the Rams drafted Richardson in the seventh round, and he had 98 rushes for 475 yards (but oddly enough, no touchdowns). Still, 4.8 YPC is nothing to scoff at. He followed that up in 2013 with just 3.1 YPC, and was waived in 2014 before bouncing around the league for a few seasons. Richardson was born in Jacksonville, so he got to play with his hometown team (and I say “play” lightly, because he was signed on December 26, and wasn’t on the active roster for the January 1 game against the Colts, which was the last game of the season). But after not being able to find anything steady since the end of the 2013 season, his days might be numbered.

Tony Washington: The king of the practice squad is gone. For the past three years, Washington has been that guy that was projected as the #6 or #7 wide receiver that could possibly find a way to sneak onto the roster, and was going to be interesting to watch in camp, but was, in all likelihood, going to wind up on the practice squad. In the end, he finished his Jaguar career with 1 reception for 2 yards, bouncing around on and off the practice squad, and on and off IR for the last three years. Apparently, he was on the Texans for half of last season (and is, apparently, the only player to ever wear the jersey #49 for the Texans; amazing that in about 15 years of existence, not one player had ever worn the #49 jersey, but this is literally the first I’m hearing of this. Oddly enough, this means that there were 2 players named Tony Washington who played] for the Texans last year.

Bryan Walters: He wasn’t a free agent, but we released him from IR just a few weeks ago. I’m not entirely sure why. Simply put, Walters was one of my favorite players on the team, and he was a fan-favorite. He’s the guy that, if you need 7 yards on a 3rd down, he’ll get exactly 8 and no more. He’s got reliable hands, knows where the first down line is, and was a really good third down receiver. Obviously, the Jaguars felt like keeping him on the 90-man roster and having him take up a spot because of an injury wasn’t worth it, so they released him. My guess is that the injury is serious enough that he won’t play in 2017 (for at least the first half), but some team is going to pick him up, and he won’t be off a roster for long. This guy was a pleasant surprise.

Julius Thomas: Yes, this is technically not a free agent that we lost, because it was done in a trade; however, there was nowhere else that this would fit. Aside from the second half of the 2015 season, where he was able to stay healthy and was a legitimate red zone threat (as shown with plays like this from the 2015 edition of El Trashico), he was a massive disappointment, full of injuries and dropped passes. The bottom line was that he could never stay healthy; the signs were obvious when, on literally the first play of the 2015 preseason where he caught the ball, he got hurt and missed about two months. He only started 6 games last season due to all of the injuries, and he was very inconsistent as a receiver. Consider this- in Denver, he caught 72.2% of his passes in 2013 and 69.4% of his passes in 2014. In Jacksonville, he caught just 57.5% of his passes in 2015, and 58.8% in 2016. Granted, some of that is because it was Peyton Manning throwing him the ball versus Blake Bortles (who only needs 60,670 yards to pass Peyton Manning as the all-time yardage leader in NFL history), but a lot of that was the fact that he was dropping a lot of passes. I’m not sold on our current tight end situation (especially since the #2 option is Marcedes Lewis, who is entering his twelfth season and is readily declining), but I wouldn’t have been sold on this situation if Julius was there either. When healthy, he was decent (certainly not worth the contract, but definitely in the middle half of tight ends), but he could never stay healthy, and he couldn’t block (which we knew). This signing turned out to be a bust.

Greg Van Roten: Any Jags fan that didn’t know that we lost Greg Van Roten this offseason isn’t a true Jags fan, and is simply a bandwagoner who doesn’t know what they’re talki… yeah, I’ve never heard of the guy, either. We signed him on February 27 and released him on May 1, so he didn’t even make it to minicamp or OTAs. Based on the timing, I don’t even know if he and Doug Marrone ever even met. He spent the last two seasons in the CFL with the Toronto Argonauts, but he’s not on a CFL roster (or any roster) right now.

Luke Joeckel: Speaking of things the Jaguars did that turned out to be busts… Luke Joeckel. The one year the Jaguars get a top 2 draft pick, and they’re given it in one of the worst draft classes of all-time. When healthy, Joeckel was decent, but much like Julius Thomas, he could never stay healthy. He missed most of 2013 with a broken ankle, and most of 2016 with an ACL/MCL/meniscus surgery. Last year, the Jaguars moved him inside to guard, and he looked a bit better before getting hurt. But I can’t blame Caldwell for not throwing money at a guy coming off of an ACL/MCL/meniscus surgery that can’t stay healthy and that looks decent at best. He signed a deal with Seattle on the first day of free agency and immediately became the greatest tackle in franchise history since Walter Jones (and while I like the one-year deal, I’m not exactly sure that giving $7 million guaranteed was the smartest move).

Kelvin Beachum: I’m fine with losing Joeckel. I’m not fine with losing Beachum. When I look at the draft and the Cam Robinson pick, and I look at what we had with Kelvin Beachum, did we really get better? The Jaguars needed a backup tackle. Kelvin Beachum, if re-signed, could’ve been that backup tackle, and then the second round pick could’ve been spent on a different position. Instead, Beachum goes to the Jets, Cam Robinson is the pick, and everything feels like a lateral move. I wanted to at least keep one of the two, whether it was Joeckel or Beachum; I didn’t want to lose both. Beachum got a 3-year deal for $24 million from the Jets (a very good deal for both sides), and the Jets definitely got a solid tackle with this move. I would’ve liked to have kept him, as he is starter quality.